Animal

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EnglishModificar

PronunciationModificar

• enPR: ăn'əməl, IPA: /ˈænəməl/, SAMPA: /"{n@m@l/

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From Middle English animal from Old French animal from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis adj, from anima ‘breath, spirit’. Displaced native Middle English deor, der "animal" (from Old English dēor "animal"), Middle English reother "animal, neat" (from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer "neat, ox").

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Animal (plural Animals)

1. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

   A cat is an animal, not a plant.

   Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

2. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
3. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
4. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly.

   My students are animals.

5. (informal) A person of a particular type.

   a political animal

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• (organism): beast, creature
• (non-human organism): beast
• (person who behaves wildly): brute, monster, savage

Related termsModificar

• anima
• animus
• animate
• Animalia

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Etymology 2Modificar

From Latin animalis, from either anima ‘breath, spirit’ or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.

AdjectiveModificar

Animal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to animals.

   animal instincts

2. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   animal passions

3. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
   • 2003: To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
4. (slang, Irish) Excellent.

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• (of animals): beastly, bestial
• (unhindered by social codes): animalistic, beastly, bestial, untamed, wild

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Derived termsModificar

• animalistic
• animal magnetism
• manimal

See alsoModificar

• Wiktionary appendix of terms relating to animals

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• Almain
• aminal
• lamina
• maalin
• Malian
• manila, Manila

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AsturianModificar

NounModificar

Animal m. (plural animales)

1. animal

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CatalanModificar

NounModificar

Animal m. (plural Animals)

1. animal

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Animal (epicene, plural Animals)

1. animal

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• IPA: /a.ni.mal/
• Homophones: animale, animales

NounModificar

Animal m. (plural animaux)

1. animal

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• bête
• bestiole

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Animal m. (f. Animale, m. plural animaux, f. plural Animales)

1. animal

SynonymsModificar

• bestial

AntonymsModificar

• végétal

AnagramsModificar

• lamina

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GalicianModificar

NounModificar

Animal m. (plural animais)

1. animal

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InterlinguaModificar

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Animal (plural Animales)

1. animal

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LatinModificar

EtymologyModificar

From anima (“‘breath, life’”)

NounModificar

animal (genitive animālis); n, third declension

1. animal
2. living creature

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Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	animal	animālia
genitive	animālis	animālium
dative	animālī	animālibus
accusative	animal	animālia
ablative	animālī	animālibus
vocative	animal	animālia

SynonymsModificar

• animalis, bestia

Related termsModificar

• anima
• animalis
• animare
• animus

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PortugueseModificar

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• IPA: /ɐ.ni.ˈmaʊ/

NounModificar

Animal m. (plural animais)

1. animal

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animal m. and f. (plural animais; comparable)

1. Or or relating to animals; animal.
2. (slang) cool; nice

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EtymologyModificar

From Latin animalis through French animal.

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Animal ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. animal, animalistic
2. brutal

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Animal

1. brutally

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Animal m. (plural animali)

1. animal

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Animal m. (plural animales)

1. animal

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